Kaiser

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• 9 On Income Disparity

  Graphically exploring the state of income disparity in the U.S.

  Opinion in Culture — by Kaiser — on Oct 10, 2005

• 8 Baseball ROI

  Does the table of numbers cited by Leonhardt prove that big spending baseball teams don't get much back for their money?

  Review in Sports — by Kaiser — on Aug 31, 2005

• 7 Armour For The Troops

  How charts are used in the science of armouring our troops

  Opinion in Sci/Tech — by Kaiser — on Aug 20, 2005

• 6 An Argentine opinion poll

  How an Argentine newspaper present opinion poll results as compared to NYT or Economist

  Review in Culture — by Kaiser — on Aug 16, 2005

• 5 Beauty vs Utility in Data Maps

  An unusually beautiful map in NYT is used to muse on beauty vs utility

  Review in Culture — by Kaiser — on Aug 04, 2005

• 4 Wi-fi Nation: a terrific map

  A terrific example of a map that makes full use of city and state level data

  Review in Culture — by Kaiser — on Aug 03, 2005

• 3 Big Revenues or Big Profits? Part II

  Why lines are better than thick bars and what statisticians might use to compare the Global 10 businesses

  Opinion in Culture — by Kaiser — on Aug 01, 2005

• 2 Big Revenues or Big Profits?

  Walmart may be the "biggest" company but it's the oil companies that are raking up the profits. Too bad the Economist's chart of the 10 biggest companies in the world is no different from a table of numbers.

  Review in Sci/Tech — by Kaiser — on Jul 31, 2005

• 1 Donuts and Pies: Which tastes better?

  Each publication gravitates to "pet" charts: the Economist happens to like donut charts. Hopefully their editors will read this and stop using them.

  Review in Sci/Tech — by Kaiser — on Jul 29, 2005